tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6649591714373684167.post167810294474453785..comments2024-02-29T16:43:55.241-05:00Comments on Lurking Rhythmically: Pellatarrum: Cosmology & Geography OverviewErin Palettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09984632637166408245noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6649591714373684167.post-19872859284693022832011-08-09T20:42:04.660-04:002011-08-09T20:42:04.660-04:00The football shape is a clever tough.The football shape is a clever tough.mordicaihttp://mordicai.livejournal.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6649591714373684167.post-34438800217762272582009-09-20T23:04:44.759-04:002009-09-20T23:04:44.759-04:00OK, this is clearly the subject of my next blog po...OK, this is clearly the subject of my next blog post, since people are confused and the explanation will probably be longer than a single comment deserves. :)Erin Palettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09984632637166408245noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6649591714373684167.post-84548542336611019202009-09-20T21:18:21.738-04:002009-09-20T21:18:21.738-04:00Just trying to figure it out... So light is always...Just trying to figure it out... So light is always coming in at a super low angle, right, like it's always sunset or sunrise? Isn't most of ground level "dark" then? Since any mountain or forest or whatnot basically makes everything spireward of it in shadow? And the facing of a house that is "spireward" never gets direct light at all, right?<br /><br />I thought maybe positive energy just kinda suffused because you talked about how negative energy can radiate and such too. So that the line of twilight wasn't so much where the light can't reach to as where the positive and negative just cancel outAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6649591714373684167.post-56895645816563721182009-09-19T17:53:53.410-04:002009-09-19T17:53:53.410-04:00@Myx: Yes, they live on the disk. Since it is an i...@Myx: Yes, they live on the disk. Since it is an infinite plane -- Pellatarrum IS the totality of the Prime Material -- an edge exists only as a cosmological abstraction. <br /><br />I confess I'm a bit baffled as to the next part of your statement. The Positive Energy Plane does indeed shine like a sun, because everything I have read about it in various D&D source material says that it's brilliant, radiant, causes blindness, etc. Likewise, the Negative Energy Plane radiates darkness across the face of the disk, and where they meet, there is shadow. <br /><br />"If it were shining, then any tall thing "outside" would put the interior in permanent darkness."<br /><br />Yes, that is how the Dayspire produces a day/night cycle. There is nothing taller than the Dayspire, as it has infinite height. But I fear I haven't properly answered your question, as I can't determine exactly what you're asking. When you say "interior" do you mean the other side of the disk?<br /><br />Or perhaps you feel that Positive Energy doesn't behave like sunlight does and therefore doesn't scatter and bounce? (It does, in my universe at least.)Erin Palettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09984632637166408245noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6649591714373684167.post-359506152143870672009-09-19T16:37:19.675-04:002009-09-19T16:37:19.675-04:00Wait, I don't understand - do people live on t...Wait, I don't understand - do people live on the flat part of the disk or the outside edge? The disk, right, or else the season scheme doesn't work right?<br /><br />I like the craziness, but one of the real questions becomes how much stuff is really "logical ramifications of the new setup" because logically the new setup would make a lot of things really really different. Like, if I understand this correctly, there could not be such a thing as a shadow - light isn't really "shining" from the PMP like it would from the sun, it's just emanating and filling the world in that sector. (If it were shining, then any tall thing "outside" would put the interior in permanent darkness.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6649591714373684167.post-89860655850251206672009-09-18T20:54:45.585-04:002009-09-18T20:54:45.585-04:00@Kenneth: It's true, when I first started this...@Kenneth: It's true, when I first started this project 4 years ago I used the Outlands as a base model, because I thought it had potential. Of course, I've since gone completely whackadoodle since then and the Dayspire is the only part that remains. <br /><br />@Chgowiz: To be answered in later posts, I promise! Also, that clip is hilarious. <br /><br />@Trollsmyth: I just felt that Earth matched the stasis of winter better. *shrug*<br /><br />The Ethereal Plane still exists, as it and the Plane of Shadow are coterminous with the Prime Material (which in this case is the disk of Pellatarrum). I just took it as a given and therefore made no note of it... but you're right, I should see to that. <br /><br />What's outside the football? I'm inclined to say "a god of creation, quarterbacking a friendly post-Thanksgiving game."Erin Palettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09984632637166408245noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6649591714373684167.post-79270661407777705802009-09-18T20:26:14.436-04:002009-09-18T20:26:14.436-04:00I love this! It's suitably insane.
I would h...I <i>love</i> this! It's suitably insane.<br /><br />I would have swapped Earth and Water, but that's just the traditionalist in me.<br /><br />I'm curious what you've done with the Ethereal Plane. Just chucked it? I used to do that a lot. Still do, actually, now that I think of it. But if you have, in what realm do dreams happen? <br /><br />Looking forward to hearing the implications of this setup. That's where ideas like this tend to rock hard. Also lookingforward to hearing what, if anything, is outside the football.trollsmythhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01895349218958093151noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6649591714373684167.post-87372873414447547662009-09-18T07:34:29.642-04:002009-09-18T07:34:29.642-04:00That's just all sorts of awesome. So what happ...That's just all sorts of awesome. So what happens when the BBEM goes after the Spire? Where are the gods?<br /><br />Oh, and my response to the airflow picture: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kmv3WlKa6U8" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kmv3WlKa6U8</a>Michael S/Chgowizhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02052820400496340137noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6649591714373684167.post-53402752970358633032009-09-18T05:18:38.189-04:002009-09-18T05:18:38.189-04:00I love it. Seriously. Crazy cracked-up "becau...I love it. Seriously. Crazy cracked-up "because it's fantasy, dammit!" worlds and cosmologies are awesome. Again I bring up Planescape, where the Outlands also had an infinitely tall Spire, one with a definite top and definite bottom -- it's the middle that's infinite, see. Another favorite is from Swashbucklers of the 7 Skies, where the whole world looks like a big snow globe, a dome of open sky with rocky islands floating on clouds in it; and apparently the designer's original conception of the world was even more bonkers.Nerrinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08966552720554431156noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6649591714373684167.post-21038254696786438482009-09-18T02:24:25.410-04:002009-09-18T02:24:25.410-04:00I just shit bricks.I just shit bricks.Nathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17604121470547776811noreply@blogger.com